LIBERTY UNIVERSITY EDUC 750
QUIZ 5 2026 TEST PAPER
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
GRADE A+
◉ Educational Milestones, 1. Answer: Seventeenth century (1600s)
•Local schools, apprenticeships, *dame schools, and tutors
•The Boston Latin Grammar School in 1635
•Harvard College in 1636
•Old Deluder Satan Law in 1647
•The New England Primer in 1690
◉ Early Inequities for Education. Answer: •Poverty/classism: Pauper's
Oath required for basic education
•Gender and sexism: Girls were only taught reading and writing and
skills to become a good Christian wife and mother.
•Race: Blacks, since 1619 and Native Americans were denied
educational opportunities. Quakers created special schools for children
of color.
Access to housing/location within America
•Northern colonies settled by Puritans in communities with schools
dedicated to teaching the Bible
, •Middle colonies settled by European religious and ethnic groups
groomed students for a variety of careers.
•Southern colonies focused on education for life on plantations.
Religious tolerance
◉ Educational Milestones, 2. Answer: Eighteenth century (1700s)
•Development of national interest in education
•State responsibility for education
•Growth in secondary education
•South Carolina denies education to slaves in 1740
•Establishment of the Franklin Academy in 1751
•The Land Ordinance Act in 1785
The Northwest Ordinance in 1787
◉ Leaders. Answer: Thomas Jefferson - education should be available to
all white children from all economic and social classes. The public
begins to question limited education.
Benjamin Franklin- his academy was free of religious influence and
offered a variety of practical subjects (electives).
These changes contributed to separating American Educational thought
from the its European roots.
QUIZ 5 2026 TEST PAPER
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
GRADE A+
◉ Educational Milestones, 1. Answer: Seventeenth century (1600s)
•Local schools, apprenticeships, *dame schools, and tutors
•The Boston Latin Grammar School in 1635
•Harvard College in 1636
•Old Deluder Satan Law in 1647
•The New England Primer in 1690
◉ Early Inequities for Education. Answer: •Poverty/classism: Pauper's
Oath required for basic education
•Gender and sexism: Girls were only taught reading and writing and
skills to become a good Christian wife and mother.
•Race: Blacks, since 1619 and Native Americans were denied
educational opportunities. Quakers created special schools for children
of color.
Access to housing/location within America
•Northern colonies settled by Puritans in communities with schools
dedicated to teaching the Bible
, •Middle colonies settled by European religious and ethnic groups
groomed students for a variety of careers.
•Southern colonies focused on education for life on plantations.
Religious tolerance
◉ Educational Milestones, 2. Answer: Eighteenth century (1700s)
•Development of national interest in education
•State responsibility for education
•Growth in secondary education
•South Carolina denies education to slaves in 1740
•Establishment of the Franklin Academy in 1751
•The Land Ordinance Act in 1785
The Northwest Ordinance in 1787
◉ Leaders. Answer: Thomas Jefferson - education should be available to
all white children from all economic and social classes. The public
begins to question limited education.
Benjamin Franklin- his academy was free of religious influence and
offered a variety of practical subjects (electives).
These changes contributed to separating American Educational thought
from the its European roots.
